I think I’ve figured out why Republican Party leadership has not been able to accomplish much in Washington. They don’t control enough branches of government. Sure the GOP certainly controls the House and Senate and, on the days when he’s not obsessed with his Twitter feed, the presidency.

Yet there is still some hesitancy to live up to decades of political promises to voters and donors. It could be because there is still one branch of government Republicans don’t control and that’s the judiciary.

Why go to all the trouble and risk the political downside of casting recorded votes for potentially controversial legislation when some Democrat in a black robe can rule the law unconstitutional? Instead it’s much less stressful to avoid controversy and hold news conferences while GOP leaders figure out a way to annex the Supreme Court, too.

In the meantime, this lack of activity is very stressful for the party apparatchiks trying to raise campaign contributions for somnolent senators. Longtime Republican fundraiser Dan Palmer was interviewed by Fox News and the relaxing pace of the Senate is making his job a nightmare.

Palmer explains, “I’ve been around Republican politics for 30 some years and I’ve never seen it tougher.”

For some reason large donors, and small for that matter, don’t appear to be willing to donate good money after bad. In fact, it wouldn’t surprise me if many past donors wouldn’t prefer to demand a refund of earlier contributions. Fat chance, though. They’d have better odds of success getting a refund for late baggage from a discount airline.

Palmer is more tactful, but he is essentially in agreement, “I think the House is doing its job of getting stuff out, but it’s going to the graveyard in the Senate. The net effect for the American people is (Republicans) have yet to deliver. Whether (donors) have got $25 of skin in the game or $100,000, they’re mad. People deserve to get action on this agenda.”

For some reason it appears the membrane of the bubble surrounding our elected “representatives” in Washington is thicker than the proposed wall President Trump wants to build. Senate leadership doesn’t appear to be getting the message. Just this week Sen. Roy Blunt (R – Complacent) told the Kansas City Star that in his view the Senate should pass “only a handful of changes” to the tax code and save the rest for 2019.

Kicking the can down the road is an art form in the Senate and it gives elected officials a much longer time frame to pressure lobbyists for donations, but our esteemed senators may soon discover an enraged electorate is ready to kick something else and it’s not made of tin.

Michael Reagan, the eldest son of President Reagan, is a Newsmax TV analyst. A syndicated columnist and author, he chairs The Reagan Legacy Foundation. Michael is an in-demand speaker with Premiere speaker’s bureau. Read more reports from Michael Reagan — Go Here Now.

Michael R. Shannon is a commentator, researcher for the League of American Voters, and an award-winning political and advertising consultant with nationwide and international experience. He is author of "Conservative Christian’s Guidebook for Living in Secular Times (Now with added humor!)." Read more of Michael Shannon's reports — Go Here Now.